David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World - Softcover

Walker, David; Walker, Lawrie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809015811 ISBN 13: 9780809015818

Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL, 1995

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Book by Walker David

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Reseña del editor:

David Walker's Appeal is a landmark work of American history and letters, the most radical piece of writing by an African American in the nineteenth century. Startling in its intensity, unrelenting in its attacks on slavery and white racism, it alarmed Southern slaveholders, inspired Northern abolitionists, and hastened the sectional conflicts that led to the Civil War. In this new edition of the Appeal, the distinguished historian Sean Wilentz draws on a generation of innovative research to throw fresh light on Walker's life and ideas--and their enduring importance.

Biografía del autor:

David Walker was born in or near Wilmington, North Carolina, the son of a slave father and a free black mother (thus, under the laws of slavery, he was born free). the year of his birth is uncertain, although the most convincing recent research contends that it was 1796 or 1797. By his own account in the Appeal, Walker left Wilmington as a young man and wandered around the United States, residing for an unspecified period in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1825, he turned up as a used-clothes dealer in Boston, where he would spend the rest of his abbreviated life. He died suddenly in 1830.

Sean Wilentz is the Cotsen Fellow and professor of history at Princeton University. His books include Chants Democratic and, with Paul E. Johnson, The Kingdom of Matthias.

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• Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0809015811
• ISBN 13: 9780809015818
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 118